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Best Z-Wave Hubs (2025 Update)
Routers and Hubs, Network Protocols David Mead 3/4/25 Routers and Hubs, Network Protocols David Mead 3/4/25

Best Z-Wave Hubs (2025 Update)

Adding Z-Wave to your smart home can provide greater flexibility and reliability, but which controller is right for you?

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Setting Up Your First Raspberry Pi Server
Routers and Hubs, Smart Platforms David Mead 11/27/24 Routers and Hubs, Smart Platforms David Mead 11/27/24

Setting Up Your First Raspberry Pi Server

A Raspberry Pi is a great choice for hosting power user smart home tools. See how to quickly get a cheap headless server up and running for your first project.

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SwitchBot Hub 2 Review: Does Matter Help?
Routers and Hubs, Smart Sensors David Mead 11/28/23 Routers and Hubs, Smart Sensors David Mead 11/28/23

SwitchBot Hub 2 Review: Does Matter Help?

SwitchBot make a range of useful niche smart home products, but integration with platforms other than Alexa and Google has been pretty limited. The SwitchBot Hub 2 promises to help by supporting Matter, but does it work?

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What Is Band Steering in Wi-Fi Networks?
Routers and Hubs David Mead 5/11/23 Routers and Hubs David Mead 5/11/23

What Is Band Steering in Wi-Fi Networks?

Band steering is a term thrown around a lot when it comes to Wi-Fi networks, but there is a lot of misunderstanding about it. What does it actually do?

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How To Set Up VLANs On Your Home Wi-Fi Network
Routers and Hubs Floyd Colon 4/12/23 Routers and Hubs Floyd Colon 4/12/23

How To Set Up VLANs On Your Home Wi-Fi Network

Whether you’re working from home or running a lot of IoT gadgets VLANs provide a way to exercise more control over your home network’s security.

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What Is A Dual Band Router?
Routers and Hubs David Mead 3/27/23 Routers and Hubs David Mead 3/27/23

What Is A Dual Band Router?

When it comes to Wi-Fi there is a lot of jargon thrown about. 2.5GHz or 5Ghz? Why not both? Learn what a dual band router is, how it works, and why it’s important for your home network.

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Best Wired Routers for Home or Small Business
Routers and Hubs David Mead 3/18/23 Routers and Hubs David Mead 3/18/23

Best Wired Routers for Home or Small Business

You don’t always need WiFi in your router. Whether you want control, security, or performance, here are the top options for small wired routers.

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Consumer Routers: Linksys vs Netgear
Routers and Hubs David Mead 2/6/23 Routers and Hubs David Mead 2/6/23

Consumer Routers: Linksys vs Netgear

When looking for a product, it’s common to look at overall brand quality as a way of filtering down your choices. It’s not always clear cut though. Here we look at router makers Linksys and Netgear and compare some of their newest offerings.

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Thinka Z-Wave Controller Review: Native Z-Wave Support For HomeKit
Routers and Hubs, Smart Platforms David Mead 11/11/22 Routers and Hubs, Smart Platforms David Mead 11/11/22

Thinka Z-Wave Controller Review: Native Z-Wave Support For HomeKit

While there are some unofficial ways to get Z-Wave devices into HomeKit, Thinka has done it right with this native bridge device.

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eero vs Orbi: AX4200 Mesh Wi-Fi Comparison
Routers and Hubs David Mead 3/22/22 Routers and Hubs David Mead 3/22/22

eero vs Orbi: AX4200 Mesh Wi-Fi Comparison

When looking at top quality consumer mesh routers supporting Wifi 6, eero and Netgear have strong contenders. We look at what’s on offer, and how they compare.

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HomeKit Routers: What are they?
Routers and Hubs, Smart Platforms David Mead 2/28/22 Routers and Hubs, Smart Platforms David Mead 2/28/22

HomeKit Routers: What are they?

Smart devices are well known potential attack vectors when they are connected to the internet, but Apple has a HomeKit feature that gives you easy control over those devices to stop them being used against you.

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Bond Bridge Review: Smart control for your dumb appliances
Routers and Hubs David Mead 5/20/21 Routers and Hubs David Mead 5/20/21

Bond Bridge Review: Smart control for your dumb appliances

If you have appliances with RF remotes, like ceiling fans, and you want to add them to your smart home Bond provides a much easier way to do so than fitting WiFi controllers to them.

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Google WiFi Review: Real care-free WiFi
Routers and Hubs David Mead 2/23/21 Routers and Hubs David Mead 2/23/21

Google WiFi Review: Real care-free WiFi

Google proves that raw speed isn’t everything when it comes to home WiFi. Intelligent optimization gets the most out of your internet while guaranteeing a magically smooth WiFi experience.

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People really don’t get home router security, who knew?
Data Security, Routers and Hubs David Mead 5/23/18 Data Security, Routers and Hubs David Mead 5/23/18

People really don’t get home router security, who knew?

A UK based survey of home router owners provides an eye-watering view of general user ignorance and lack of awareness of basic security requirements. 

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Comparison: Ubiquiti Amplifi, Google Wifi, NetGear Orbi
Routers and Hubs David Mead 8/24/17 Routers and Hubs David Mead 8/24/17

Comparison: Ubiquiti Amplifi, Google Wifi, NetGear Orbi

As the number of connected devices in homes grow, and the paradigm of home computing moves to a more mobile base, Wifi connectivity has become increasingly important to a lot of people. Let's take a look a three of the better options available.

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